The phrase "child in the network" in the minds of the layman is firmly associated with something alarming and requiring an immediate reaction of adults: either a bad habit, or the plot of a thriller, or a reason for an extraordinary parent meeting. One of the causes of such associations at a subconscious level is probably the ambiguity of the word "network": an excited imagination against the will draws a terrible picture - a small and defenseless cub, confused in a giant web.

Manifesto Sergey Golikov Publication date: March 30, 2004 Former businessman Mikhail Khodorkovsky spoke in the Vedomosti newspaper with a letter under the eloquent title “ The Crisis of Liberalism in Russia .” The disgraced oligarch positions himself as follows: “a private individual, a citizen of the Russian Federation . ” The letter is addressed to former comrades - the so-called Russian right-wingers, heirs of the democratic reformers.

Social liberalism as an oxymoron Konstantin Krylov Publication date: March 30, 2004 I will be hostile to the common people, and I will plan the worst possible things against them. Oath of the oligarchs (Arist. Politics V, 7, 19) There is such a wonderful concept - “reason”. “Reason” is by no means a “reason,” but something like the permission of an already accumulated set of causes to produce an effect.

Exotic and everyday life Andrey Vasilevsky Publication date: March 31, 2004 Yesterday in Simferopol there were rallies of Crimean Tatars under the slogans “Beat the skinheads and Slavs!”... "New Izvestia" (2004, # 52 , March 26) How do Russians feel about skinheads? Here are the results of a study by the Public Opinion Foundation, published in Moscow News (2004, # 11), as well as in Izvestia .

Kids in the net Elena Sherman Publication date: March 30, 2004 In the minds of the average person, the phrase “child on the Internet” is strongly associated with something alarming and requiring an immediate response from adults: either a bad habit, or the plot of a thriller, or a reason for an extraordinary parent-teacher meeting.

From today we will have three heroes. Two domestic and one foreign. Let's start from afar, i.e. from a foreign car. Alessandro Baricco. Novel "Castles of Wrath" . The first detailed review appeared, it seems, here in RJ. There is no point in retelling, it is better to read . Then the Book Review selected it for its weekly seven (#11, March 15): A bizarre, Kafkaesque mixture of realism and grotesquery . And on March 25, Gazeta (# 50) published a huge interview with Mr.

USA in Iraq. One year later Sergey Markedonov Publication date: March 30, 2004 “ There are four characteristics of a hegemonic power: resources, will, strategy and example,” stated the author of the acclaimed publication “Superpower America: Completion of the Pax Americana?” Charles Williams Mines .

90s? 80s? 70s? On the ongoing nature of history Sergey Romashko Publication date: March 30, 2004 Two discussions that flared up unexpectedly in the Russian Journal and also (no, not quite, but we will talk about this later) unexpectedly died out, suddenly stuck together. The first discussion is about the nineties. Both its very beginning and some reluctance to delve into it seem to be no coincidence.

Empire of Terror on CD Ivan Morozov Publication date: March 30, 2004 Last week in Moscow, at the House of Journalists on Nikitsky Boulevard, CDs prepared by the International Society "Memorial" , the Commission for the Rehabilitation of Victims of Political Repression under the President of the Russian Federation , the Museum and Public Center named after. A.D. Sakharov and the Regional Public Organization "Open Russia" . The two-disc album was released by the Zvenya publishing house.

Turkish accent "Foreign Literature", # 3 Gleb Shulpyakov Publication date: March 30, 2004 In March, the magazine completes publication of Burgess's novel "Iron, Rusty Iron" (translation by A. Pinsky and E. Dombayan). This same Burgess was good to everyone, but in just three issues, while the publication lasted, I managed to forget who was who in this multi-figured khaki cloth. Question: how else to print important but large things? Give away the whole number?